The most obscure game you own.

[tahrey]

Dunno about "own", but damn if there wasn't a lot of bizarre stuff knocking around on pirate disks swapped with my mates in the 16 bit days. And on magazine covers, too. Most of which I still have. One incredibly stale tactical internets ration, "cookie with chocolate flavoured chips" type, for each of these you genuinely know of. I'm only going to include the ones played often enough that I can remember them, but I reckon few others here will have any regard for.

Terry's Big Adventure
Fast Lane (The Spice Engineering Challenge)
Clown O Mania
Toyottes
Simulcra
No Second Prize
Leander
The Golden Path
Interphase
St. Dragon
Offshore Warrior
Hector vs The Mutant Vampire Tomatoes From Hell
The Pepsi Challenge(!)
H.E.R.O.
Sky War
Metro Cross
Rayoid
Flinstones
and oh, a bloody pile more

PC days saw a few more
Linewars II
Corncob 3D
Space Shuttle Simulator
Halloween Harry
Blackthorne
Teen Agent
(would Screamer and Tempest 2000 count? Or too common, really?)
Death Rally
Krazy Karts... something like that. erm.
Rigs of Rods

Chipped PSX strangely didn't see that many, if Vib Ribbon and Thrill Kill are discounted (and Ergheiz... I mean, just, wtf), and since having to largely pay for our own games or wait for them to be bought for us on special occasions, rather than ripping them off / getting budget stuff with pocket money / badgering for them to be bought out of xmas/birthday season, the strange experimental stuff has sort of died out to be replaced by guaranteed winners. Sadly. There's some ecstatically good stuff inamongst the poorly hacked together crap.

 

[l3o2828]

Well i own every single DDR, even the japanese ones which i'm pretty sure aren't easy to find on the states.
I also own a Japanese Ruroni Kenshin Ps2 Beat 'Em Up game.

Is this obscure enough?

 

[tahrey]

Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

Never played past the first couple scenes, but we once had a pair of goldfish named after titular character simply because we heard the name somewhere.

My mind was fully bent when, on firing it up in DOSbox or something, not only did Zak interact with a goldfish in the first scene... but said fish had the same name and general appearance as my own at the time. Arrgh!

 

[natster43]

MetropolisMania 1 and 2. City building games where you work for Hitler trying to build the best cities where people communicate to each other in person and live happily without problems for the PS2. They are alright, the first one is better.

 

[Kapri]

Dunno if it's obscure, but Hexen. LOVE that game!

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

Whiplash

Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy

Played demos of both from a PlayStation Magazine disc. Never actually saw them in a store though. 'Tis a shame. They were pretty fun.

OT: Most obscure? Probably a game known as Uplink. If you've ever played DEFCON, the two games were made by the same developer. It's a Hollywood hacking simulation game. It's actually REALLY fun.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Probably Custom Robo for NGC. It was a good game, I liked the story. Not that obscure but the most obscure I have.

 

[Dfskelleton]

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream for PC. It's like the precursor to Silent Hill 2 but with 5 people and a malevolent A.I. hell bent on tormenting them forever.

 

[The Floating Nose]

Captain Novolin for SNES: A game for people with diabetes. I don't have diabetes but it's a game that cost a lot of money online surprinsingly.


If you have heard of the game "Juggernaut" for the PSX. You deserve a medal if you know about this game it is EXTREMELY obscure but it's actually a pretty damn good Myst-like game with survival horror aspect and a pretty cool atmosphere, story and sound design.

 

[-Samurai-]

way of the samurai 3

Isn't that game just grand?

I own all 3 games, and I've loved every single one.

OT: Critical Depth. It's a PS1 game that's like Twister Metal....with submarines! That fucking shark sub won't stop eating me!

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Since no one ever seems to mention it in a list of obscure games, my choice would be a Brazilian RTS game called "Outlive".

 

[TheRussian]

Prison Tycoon 3: The world's best-selling prison tycoon game

 

[TheDooD]

Shadow Hearts, Gungrave: Overdose, Shinobi (PS2), Nightshade

 

[l3o2828]

Shadow Hearts, Gungrave: Overdose, Shinobi (PS2), Nightshade

Shinobi or Shinobido? I mean, i own both, but it's really nice to see someone else that has it. do you like it?

 

[TheSchizoid]

Hm. How about Clock Tower or Kouldelka for the Playstation? Mr. Mosquito and Legaia 2 for the PS2? Flying Warriors for the NES? (I blame GamePro for buying this pile.) I have many games that could be considered obscure. I just don't feel like digging to list them all.

 

[CarbonEagle]

Sunage RTS. Its obscure for a reason. Dont get it. its glitchy and has been done better by EVERYONE!
The only part i found interesting was that you couldn't choose which specific unit to shoot, only where your units moved and could prioritize unit types.

 

[Baralak]

When I was kid, I owned a copy of Star Soldier: Shattered Earth, a top down shooter for my N64. Years later, I learned that only 500 or so copies of the game were ever sold anywhere. I wish I had held on to it.

I got that off Amazon for like, $15 a few months ago. Thought it was a mech game, btu found out it's an old school shmup, which I'm not a fan of. Still keeping it in my collection, though.



OT: Probably a PS1 fighter called Evil Zone. It's really cool, using a ton of anime tropes, from the magical girl to the Kamen Rider- wannabe. It uses only two buttons, one to attack, the other to block. Everything else is contextual. It's fully voice acted and after each story battle, you get a "next episode" style preview of story events and the fight. Aside from being fun by itself, each special attack uses a randomly selected camera angle each time the attack goes off, to keep things dynamic and fresh. I got it for $5 at a dedicated game store in a flea market, and I really recommend it if you want a quirky old school fighter.

 

[GaltarDude1138]

Wow, I have no idea :O.

My friend likes Blitz The League, which in my mind is the best example of an obscure game.

Probably Shellshock 2, that game was a piece of...well, it was many feet of crap below one piece of crap, so expressions fail me. But it is very obscure, and it came up with the idea of zombies in Vietnam before Treyarch hinted at it and we flew rumors around before BO came out. That's how obscure it is.

AND THE ZOMBIES DIDN'T DIE FROM A SHOTGUN BLAST TO THE FACE! NOT EVEN 2! NO, IT WAS MORE LIKE 19! I don't know what the Vietcong zombies ate for breakfast that day, but boy did it make them hard to kill...

EDIT: Technically I don't own it NOW, but I had it for a time.

 

[Johann610]

Mystical Ninja for N64
Wild 9 for Playstation one (sadistic platformer)
Dance Dance Revolution, Disney Mix U.S. for PS1 (more rare, I guess)
Prato Fiorito for Windows XP